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Update: This sale ends today!

Originally posted on 11/26:

Avianca is a Star Alliance member and their Lifemiles program is an interesting one. Lifemiles can be used to book travel with partner airlines like United and Air Canada within North America.

Lifemiles is one of the rare mileage programs that doesn’t collect any fuel surcharges. Note that Avianca Lifemiles require earning activity every 12 months in order to stop your miles from expiring. Transferring points to Lifemiles will extend the points validity for 12 more months.

Lifemiles allows you to use cash+points on award tickets, where you can effectively buy miles from about 1.5 cents each on the award search results page. You do need to have 40% of the required miles in order to do this.

While I typically book all of my travel as one-way as that allows the most flexibility, with Lifemiles you’ll pay the booking fee twice if you book 2 one-way awards instead of a round-trip award.

It’s worth noting that Lifemiles has non-existent customer service and their website does not see all of the awards that it should, so you should always check for availability before transferring miles. You’re unlikely to have any luck calling Lifemiles for help if there website doesn’t see an award that ought to be available.

Here are some sample domestic deals:

Chicago to/from Washington/DCA: 5K in coach (normally 7.5K).

Chicago to/from Philadelphia: 5K in coach (normally 7.5K).

LaGuardia to/from Chicago: 5K in coach (normally 7.5K).

LaGuardia to/from Cleveland: 5K in coach (normally 6.5K).

Newark to/from Atlanta: 5K in coach (normally 7.5K).

Newark to/from Boston: 4.5K in coach (normally 6.5K).

Newark to/from Cleveland: 5K in coach (normally 6.5K).

Newark to/from Chicago: 5K in coach (normally 7.5K).

Newark to/from Detroit: 5K in coach (normally 6.5K).

Newark to/from Pittsburgh: 4.5K in coach (normally 6.5K).

Los Angeles to/from Las Vegas: 4.5K in coach (normally 6.5K).

Los Angeles to/from San Francisco: 5.5K in coach (normally 6.5K).

San Francisco to/from Las Vegas: 4.5K in coach (normally 6.5K).

San Francisco to/from San Diego: 5.5K in coach (normally 6.5K).

Seattle to/from San Francisco: 5.5K in coach (normally 7.5K).

United now charges 12.5K miles for a close-in award from Cleveland to LaGuardia:

The Capital One® Spark® Miles for Business offering 50,000 miles for spending $5,000 in 3 months and another 150,000 miles for spending another $45,000 within 6 months, for a potential signup bonus of 200,000 points+100,000 base points! Get free Global Entry/Pre-Check Membership. $95 annual fee waived for the first year.

The Citi Double Cash card offers 2% cash back or 2 points per dollar spent everywhere that can be transferred into ThankYou points. If you also have a Citi Premier Card you can transfer points into miles or get a 25% added value for paid airfare. No annual fee.

The Citi Rewards+ Card offering 15,000 points for spending $1,000 in 3 months. This card can’t transfer points on its own, but can transfer points if you have one of the Citi cards above. This card automatically rounds up rewards earned on every purchase to the nearest 10 points, meaning you earn 10 points on a $0.50 Amazon balance reload. Earn 2 points on $6K in annual spending at supermarkets, 0% intro APR on purchases and balance transfers for 15 months, and a 10% points rebate when you redeem points, up to a 10K points rebate per year. If you also have a Citi Premier Card you can transfer points into miles or get a 25% added value for paid airfare, plus get a 10% points rebate on transferred or redeemed miles. No annual fee.

But united for some reason after the announcement is not showing saver awards or even STANDARD awards. check out ex. Fll-ewr on 12/1

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November 26, 2019 10:12 pm

Dan

You’re asking why there are no saver awards on one of the busiest travel days of the year?

Standard awards are there, but those are now dynamic.

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November 26, 2019 10:20 pm

Jake

Lol I guess so.
So it seems that if there are saver awards, they remain the same, and standard rewards go dynamic. That def a big hit, as it is saver rewards are hard to find, at least standard awards we’re affordable. Now it’s just like delta when dynamically priced.

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November 26, 2019 10:50 pm

yelped

No.

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November 26, 2019 10:10 pm

frustrated

lax to tlv doesn’t show up even when you login checked multiple dates whats with their lousy website i cant even figure out how much a business class seat costs from lax to tlv ?

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November 26, 2019 10:13 pm

hi

is the sale for pesach dates ?

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November 26, 2019 10:15 pm

Dan

It’s for all dates.

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November 26, 2019 10:21 pm

Shmuff

So if showing 30k +$24 per leg of the trip. Will the total be 60k +$24 or is the $24 doubled as well. Is that the booking fee that is referred to in the post?

How would you go about booking from ORD-TLV, I didn’t see that option.

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December 9, 2019 1:21 am

j

what time does this end?

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December 9, 2019 3:32 pm

asd

newark to tlv 55k if i transfer from citi for 25% is that subtracted of the total so 55k minus 25% equals 41.25k citi fo business?

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December 9, 2019 3:42 pm

FlyinHi

Purchased LifeMiles with their 150% bonus, and redeemed this sale for roundtrip to Europe during June 2020 summer peak travel for 7 people! Business class lie-flat eastbound on Swiss. Preferred seat economy westbound on Lufthansa and Air Canada. All for 25% less than current AA Basic Economy fares! Happy!

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December 9, 2019 9:21 pm

hiii

citi double cash can be turned into ty points?? how? Is it only if you have another card that earns ty points?

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